I'm loving Rutilius Rufus's suggestion to convince Cornelia Sulla to agree to marry Quintus Pompeius. It basically amounts to dropping hints that Sulla is changing his mind and wants to marry her off to some especially odious fellow and then letting her meet Young Marius again (with whom she's in love) and let them annoy each other because he'll be pre-occupied with his career rather than her. And finally letting her actually meet Quintus Pompeius since she hasn't even laid eyes on him.

For context, Rutilius Rufus solves all of his friends' children's thorny marriage issues. And his plan certainly beats Sulla's threats to beat her to death or to sell her off into slavery. This leads to this exchange:

"I'm already a slave!" she called back.

What a soldier she would have made!

That last was in Sulla's thoughts. He really shouldn't lose his temper with her; it doesn't help him.